For Delray Beach, "It would bring high quality Internet access and the notoriety of being selected," Smith said. "It could help with economic development. Hopefully, it would have a lot of positive impact."

By the March 26 deadline, Google had received more than 200,000 responses from individuals and communities to its online form application. Google plans to announce the selected city or cities before the end of the year.

The company will bear the cost of constructing the new high-speed network, which includes burying fiber optic cables. It will then be offered at a yet-to-be-determined cost to individual customers, Smith said.

Smith said the city created a survey on its website to poll residents on the project. So far only 28 people responded, but all strongly support the project, Smith said.

"Part of what we said in the response is that we would have meetings with the community and engage people through information technology," Smith said.